As a contemporary cute creature of Nintendo, Kirby of the Stars can be said to be well known to all ages, and although Masahiro Sakurai, who created its image, explained that the reason why Kirby will become the "only hope of the whole village" in the plot mode "Star of Lights" in the "Nintendo Star Smash Bros. Brawl Special Edition" is the result of exclusion, but it is enough to explain his status by taking the risk of saving other fighters instead of big brother Mario as the protagonist.
The origin of the classic image of Star No Kirby can be said 30 years ago, when Masahiro Sakurai had just entered the HAL Research Institute, but he was favored by the president at the time, Satoshi Iwata, and was entrusted with making a game that "immersed everyone in.".
At that time, Masahiro Sakurai took a fancy to a doll in the studio, so he especially liked stick figures and designed a game character image with simple lines, and the final name was inspired by john kirby, the lawyer who helped Nintendo win the "King Kong" copyright dispute.
In this way, "Star Kirby" was born in the near-bankruptcy HAL Research Institute, compared to the "Contra", "Mega Man" and other games on the market at that time, "Star Kirby" has a simple and intuitive map, more in line with the style of female players and child players, with a cute setting and simple and interesting gameplay, the game has become the object of public attention once listed, and 5 million sets of sales have been raging around the world.
As the first game developed by Masahiro Sakurai and Mr. Satoshi Iwata, this game also symbolizes the budding friendship between Masahiro Sakurai and Mr. Satoshi Iwata.
In the autumn of the same year, Satoshi Iwata traveled to Nintendo and persuaded Nintendo President Zochi to contribute funds, and the HAL Institute finally ushered in a miraculous rebirth, and later became one of Nintendo's most important second-party studios.
After HAL and Nintendo, Masahiro Sakurai and Satoshi Iwata submitted a new project to Master Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo, which is now one of Nintendo's well-known IPs - "Nintendo Star Brawl".
A year later, "Nintendo Star Brawl 64" officially landed on the N64 platform, and the original "Nintendo Star Brawl" had only 12 characters, known as 12 elders, including Kirby created by Masahiro Sakurai.
However, after the development of two "Nintendo Star Brawl", as Satoshi Iwata left the HAL Research Institute to go to the Nintendo headquarters, Sakurai Masahiro also chose to leave the HAL Research Institute and founded the company "Sora" on his own, although he still had business dealings with Nintendo, but no one expected that the third game "Nintendo Star Brawl" would still be produced by Masahiro Sakurai.
President Satoshi Iwata announced at the launch of Nintendo's new host wii in 2005 that the upcoming third game "Nintendo Star Brawl" will still be produced by Masahiro Sakurai, and after talking with Masahiro Sakurai, he persuaded (wei) to serve (xie) that he take over the development of the Wii version of "Nintendo Star Smash Bros. X".
He probably didn't think that, despite every time saying it was the last game, Masahiro Sakurai had repeatedly promised Satoshi Iwata to be the producer of Nintendo Star Brawl.
During the development of the NS version of "Nintendo Star Smash Bros. Brawl Special Edition", Satoshi Iwata died of bile duct tumor hyperplasia.
We don't know what Sakurai Masahiro had in mind at this moment, but at this time he still insisted on finishing the game, until after the game was officially released, Sakurai Masahiro sent such a message on Twitter: "Ah, finally published ah, then, today a little cry, it should not matter, right?" ”
There is no doubt that this is a game that Masahiro Sakurai has worked hard to produce, and the number of characters, maps, etc. in it has reached the highest level in the past, and there is no doubt that this will be his last "Nintendo Star Brawl".
Some DLC characters are not included
Although Masahiro Sakurai was the creator of the image of Kirby, he actually left the HAL Research Institute early, and some of the subsequent works of Kirby of the Stars were not written by him, but he still remembers this symbol of friendship with Mr. Satoshi Iwata.
"Nintendo Star Smash Bros. Brawl Special Edition" features Kirby as the protagonist, and the release date is also set for the second day of the Iwata Satosha Longevity Day, and there is no doubt that Sakurai Masahiro still remembers the days when he and Satoshi Iwata saved the near-bankrupt HAL Research Institute in a small studio.
The star of game producer Masahiro Sakurai is not only a simple game character, but also a testament to his friendship with Satoshi Iwata for more than 20 years.
At the end of the article, I remembered the words of President Satoshi Iwata.
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